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Collection specimensSpecimen records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | CC0-1.0 |
Index Lot collectionIndex Lot records from the Natural History Museum's collection
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Wallace and Banks drawersDrawer-level images of specimens in the Wallace and Banks collections held by the Natural History Museum, London.
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Suzanne Ryder | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
Darwin's Fossil Mammals
View and interact with this Toxodon cranium model on Sketchfab
3D scans of fossil mammal specimens collected by Charles Darwin on the Voyage of the Beagle.
Scanning,...
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Philippa Brewer; Kaitlyn Burton; Adrian Lister; Jennifer Pullar et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
Conodont collection databaseThe database was first deposited in 2018 but has been updated in 2026 as supplementary information for a paper on the museum Conodont Collection. The dataset provides...
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Giles Miller | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Join the Dots collection-level descriptionsThe records in this dataset provide a high-level summary of the Natural History Museum's collection and encompass the material managed by its Life Sciences, Earth Sciences and...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Open Data Commons Attribution License |
Supplementary Material: Surface Sediment Samples From Early Age of Seafloor E...Ocean-floor sediment samples collected up to 150 years ago represent an important historical archive to benchmark global changes in the seafloor environment, such as species'...
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Marina Costa Rillo; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard; Giles Miller | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Charophytes of Britain and IrelandCharophytes, also known as stoneworts, are a group of large, multicelluar green algae that live in a variety of freshwater and brackish habitats. Charophytes play a significant...
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Michelle Casanova; Joanna Wilbraham | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
Linnaeus's Butterfly Type SpecimensIntroduction
This image database is intended primarily for taxonomists and other researchers, but the historical importance of the specimens portrayed is such that we hope they...
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Martin Honey; Malcolm J Scoble | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
ArtefactsCultural and historical artefacts from The Natural History Museum
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
3D Cetacean Scanning3D scans of ten Cetacean skulls collected between 1873 and 2007.
The dataset contains both baleen and toothed whales including Physeter macrocephalus (a sperm whale) the largest...
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Richard C Sabin; Kaitlyn Burton; Natalie Cooper; Anjali Goswami | Collections | Creative Commons Non-Commercial (Any) |
HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran HostplantsPlease note: HOSTS will not be further updated or amended. This dataset is an archival resource and has been made available in full for those who wish to re-use and build on the...
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Gaden S. Robinson; Phillip R. Ackery; Ian Kitching; George W Beccaloni; Luis M. Hernández | Research | Creative Commons CCZero |
British and Irish butterflies and moths: The Cockayne collectionThis collection was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the Rothschild-Cockayne-Kettlewell collection with the many other important British and Irish Lepidoptera collections...
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Natural History Museum | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution |
NHM Bird Collection Type SpecimensSummary
Search and browse the bird type specimens held in the collection of the Natural History Museum, or download and re-use the dataset describing the NHM's bird holotypes,...
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Natural History Museum; Natural History Museum; Rachel L. M. Warren; C. J. O. Harrison et al. | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
A guide to lichens on twigsWelcome to the guide to lichens on twigs. This site provides a user-friendly guide to over 60 lichens which can be found growing on twigs, as well as the data underlying the...
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Natural History Museum; Field Studies Council; Pat Wolseley; Diccon Alexander et al. | Citizen Science | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
Host-Parasite databaseIn 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today is the Parasitic worms group, devised a Host-Parasite Catalogue in which he recorded the host-parasite associations published in...
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David I Gibson; Eileen Harris; Rod Bray; Charles Hussey | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Beetle Drawer ScansDrawer scans of beetles from the Natural History Museums (NHM) collections. These scans are a mix of work produced by volunteers at the NHM as part of the VFactor program as...
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Josh Humphries | Collections | Creative Commons CCZero |
A biological nano-foam: the wall of coniferous bisaccate pollenThe outer layer of the pollen grain, the exine, plays a key role in the survival of terrestrial plant life. However, the exine structure in different groups of plants remains...
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Ruxandra Cojocaru; Oonagh Mannix; Stephen Stukins; Alexandra Pacureanu; Giles Miller; Marie Capron | Research | Creative Commons Attribution |
Supplementary Material: Intraspecific size variation in planktonic foraminife...The size structure of plankton communities is an important determinant of their functions in marine ecosystems. However, few studies have quantified how organism size varies...
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Marina Costa Rillo; Giles Miller; Michal Kucera; Thomas Ezard | Collections | Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike |
The Art of 3D InsectsA collaboration between Adobe and the Natural History Museum, London.
Adobe has partnered with the Museum to create a custom curated collection of 20 3D insect assets inspired...
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Jennifer Pullar | Public Engagement | Creative Commons CCZero |